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It was during the eight-hour drive from the capital of Chad to the central
region of Guera that I was able to really get to grips with understanding
this fascinating country. It wasn’t just the information given to me by the
UNICEF staff that taught me about the harsh reality of what children here
face on a daily basis; it was what I could see with my own eyes - signs of
the recent end of 30 years of conflict and of course, the food crisis,
caused by periods of extreme flooding and prolonged drought that destroy
crops and